At the launch of literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil's new book 'Whose Urdu Is It Anyway? Stories by Non-Muslim Urdu Writers', jurist Kapil Sibal said Urdu has become a ‘weapon of hate’ after 2014.
‘We are used to Khushwant Singh type of stories. I wanted to collect first person accounts of those who lived their daily lives in Delhi’, said Rakhshanda Jalil at the launch of Basti & Durbar, an anthology of 32 stories she has edited.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
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